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' UNiTE STATES Patented May 19, 1903.

COPE FOR GRAVES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 728,191, dated May 19,1903.' Application tiled March 17,*1902. Serial No. 98,700. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom t may concern.:

Be it known that I, EPHRAIM B. BLOOD, a citizen of the United States, residing at Ticonderoga, in the county of Essex and State of NewYork, have invented cert-ain newand usefullmprovements in Oopes or Coverings for Graves, of which the following is a specitication.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, the same parts beingindicated by the same letters in the several views.

Figure l is a cross-sectional View of the top of the entire contrivance. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of one side, excepting the legs on which the contrivance rests, and is fastened in the ground. Fig. 3 is a vertical section of one end, showing the upper portion of the legs. v

A iS the outside roll, which extends clear around the cope and incloses the whole grave. This roll is made of cement or metal, and embedded within it is an iron pipe D one and one-half inches in diameter. This pipe is in pieces or sections fastened together at the four corners of the copel with screw-elbows and also fastened together ou each of the tWo sides of the cope by two Ts, one of which is indicated by E. Each of these four Ts also receives and has screwed into it on its under side a vertical iron pipe F, one inch in diameter,which slips into another iron pipe one and one-half inches in diameter set in the ground. (Not shown in the drawings.) Four legs or supports fastened in the ground are thus provided for the whole contrivance.

The cope proper (marked B) which covers the grave is rounding over the top and flat across the bottom. It is made of concrete or metal seven-eighths of an inch 'thick at the outer edge all around and two or three inches thick in the middle, according to the size of the cope, and is designed to be covered on the outside with green moss. This covering cope of concrete or metal is spanned across the bottom by four iron bars embedded in the same and fastened with cement, each indicated in Fig. l by four dotted lines across B each flve-eighths of an inch thick and two and one-half inches wide; These iron bars rest at each end on brass hooks C, which clasp the iron pipe D, embedded in the roll A. There are eight of these hooks, four on each side of the`cope, one to receive each end of the four iron bars. Y

H indicates the position of the end of one of these bars as it rests on the brass hook. These iron bars and brass hooks span and support the cope B in four places.

The roll A is modeled to form a molding which surrounds the whole cope and grave, and the inscription G is on one end at the head of the grave.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. A coping consisting of an outer roll of the marginal form of the area to be covered and provided with embedded supports and an inner cope of corresponding form provided With members adapted to engage said supports.

2. In a coping an outer roll provided with embedded rods or tubing and an inner cope having bars adapted to engage said rods or tubing and be supported thereby.

3. A coping or cover comprising au outer roll provided with embedded tubing, supporting-legsunited to said tubing and an inner cope supported by the outer roll.

4. The combination of a roll or coping of metal or concrete, with an iron pipe embedded therein to surround the grave, which iron pipe is in sections fastened together by four screW-Ts and four screw-elbows, with a cope of metal or concrete covering the whole grave, rounding over the top and flat across the bottom, and supported by iron bars spanning and embedded in the same, and resting at each end on brass hooks which clasp the iron pipe embedded in the outside coping, this cope or covering being designed to be coveredrwithmoss, and the whole supported on legs of iron pipe, fastened and concealed in the ground, and screwed at the top into Ts in the iron .pipe embedded in the outside roll or coping.

In testimony whereof I have affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

EPHRAIM B. BLOOD.

Witnesses:

EDWARD ARTHUR SHnLDoN, WM. M. MGLAUGHLIN. 

